Wasted Days, Wasted Nights

The night in 1974 when Doug Sahm brought Freddy Fender to Soap Creek to play

"...And then there was the night Doug Sahm brought Freddy Fender to Soap Creek in early 1974. Five years..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski

Tales Behind the Posters

"...wait until the end, so I was usually tired."1974: Freddy Fender and Doug Sahm, AWHQ..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

Timeline/Discography

A timeline / discography of Doug Sahm

"...1974 Performs with Freddy Fender at the Soap Creek Saloon...."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TCB

The Return of Baldemar Huerta, succumbing to the Darkness, and I swear that I don't have a gun

"...Right Said Freddy..."

April 9, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Aces High

The Return of the Texas Tornados

"...Sir Douglas Quintet; the countrified Latin lover R&B of Freddy Fender hits like "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights"; and..."

July 5, 1996 Music Feature

A Browner Shade of Black

Blazing trails of Chicano soul

"...also developing a following. He wasn't yet known as Freddy Fender, but he sold more than a quarter-million copies..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Is the new Sir Douglas Quintet collection is from the original masters? Doug Sahm makes the final call. Also, Michael Nesmith, Junior and Tanya Rae Brown, and Clifford Antone updates.

"...Bentley, who's getting his fix of the recently departed Freddy Fender via new/old releases such as Freddy Fender: Live..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

High Texas Rider

Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite

"..."Doug said, 'Let's get Freddy Fender.' I said, 'Let's get Flaco.' We got the..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Freddy Fender is diagnosed with Hepatitis C, as news comes in that Direct Events owner and longtime local live music promoter Tim O'Connor is getting ready to retire.

"...issued regarding the poor health of fellow former Tornado Freddy Fender. Born Baldemar Huerta, Fender has been diagnosed with..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

West Coast Meets South of Texas

"...a Mexican-American all-star band made up of Tex-Mex legends Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez, David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Designated Drummer

Drummer Ernie Durawa's Way of Knowledge.

"...decadelong gig with Sahm, Augie Meyers, Flaco Jimenez, and Freddy Fender. "They were all so funny, and musically, it..."

May 23, 2003 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Texas Top 40

Ranking the best Tex-Centric Billboard Top 40 hits of the last 50 years.

Nov. 8, 2002 Music Feature

Los Super Seven

"...Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, Rick Trevino,..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Feature

This Should Go on Forever

Genre-lizing Swamp Pop

"...Barbara "You'll Lose a Good Thing" Lynn. And, interestingly, Freddy Fender's "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" and "Before the..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW needs venues, and the TABC keeps shutting 'em down. Public Enemy would be proud.

"...with Explosions in the Sky (see Music Listings, p.74)... Freddy Fender is in stable condition at San Antonio's University..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

KUT gets a facelift; the Flatlanders resurrect.

"...Today, Thursday, in San Antonio, Freddy Fender is slated for his kidney transplant (his daughter..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

To Sir, With Love

The people whose lives were touched by Doug Sahm

"...Freddy Fender, Texas Tornados I met him in '59, and..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Texas Tornados

Friday

"...one another's agenda for the album. Even the late Freddy Fender's unapologetic paean to the traditional role of women..."

March 19, 2010 Music Review by Margaret Moser

My Dinner with the Tornados

Texas Tornados celebrate a new CD with a lengthy stay in Austin

"...younger Sahm also kept the band’s spirits up when Freddy Fender died a few years ago. They’d already recorded..."

March 9, 2010 Music Post by Margaret Moser

West Side Horns

Texas Platters

"...they'd grown up on El West Side: an obscure Freddy King instrumental ("High Rise") here, Joe Zawinul there ("Mercy,..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Music Review by Joe Nick Patoski

Postmarks

Warning: blatant use of music knowledge within

"...The tapes on Freddy Fender belong to me. Completely. Anything recorded by Freddy..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column

True Blues

Alan Govenar's blues tome doesn't need to correct blues mythos. Blues is myth and vice versa.

"...in front a 1920s medicine-show tent; a brooding, pompadoured Freddy Fender hunched over – what else? – his Fender;..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Wooly Bully

Simple, the 2006/2007 Austin Music Awards

"...TME pays homage to Sahm the elder's legendary bandmate Freddy Fender, who passed away last year, with a reunion..."

March 9, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Los Super Seven

Acts Playing South by Southwest

"...Tex-Mex Paella, chock-full of David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, Freddy Fender, Flaco Jimenez, Ruben Ramos, Joe Ely, and Rick..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Dancing About Architecture

Austin City Limits to enter its 25th season two shows lighter; Steamboat loses more relocation prospects; and Ozzy Osbourne declines Black Sabbath's nomination for entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

"...large number of label, publishing, and Internet bigwigs... What's Freddy Fender doing in his post-Texas Tornados career? Hitting the..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

G-L-O-R-I-Aftermath

"...to join the Texas Tornados. He will be replacing Freddy Fender who is doing very well in the Vegas..."

July 30, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

The Weak in Rock

"...has been rumored before, and currently it looks like Freddy Fender will soon be wastin' his days and nights..."

July 23, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...Manitas with Joel Guzman y Los Azteks, Ruben Ramos, Freddy Fender, Rosie Flores, Joe Ely, and Mariachi Campañas de..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Postmarks

Music Greats Overlooked

"...Barbara Lynn, Amos Milburn, Percy Mayfield. Conjunto/Tejano: Lydia Mendoza, Freddy Fender, Little Joe y la Familia, Sunny & the..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Column

Dancing About Architecture

Al No Go Ryko Solo

"...were gonna teach Roy Head Spanish and gonna replace Freddy [Fender] with him? We use that to keep ol'..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Music Column

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